Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth

by Moshe Idel

Overview

Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. The book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade's ideas, Eliade's attitude toward Judaism, his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard, and assessing the impact of Eliade's personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433120138
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	03/20/2014
Series:	After Spirituality: Studies in Mystical Traditions , #3
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Moshe Idel, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Member of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, and currently President of the World Union of Jewish Studies. Author of Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1988), Messianic Mystics (1998), Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism (2008).

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Camouflaged Sacred in Eliade's Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship 30

Chapter 2 Androgyne, Totality, and Reintegration 60

Chapter 3 Thanatologies: Apotheoses and Triumphs of Death 104

Chapter 4 Time, History, and Antithetic Judaism 135

Chapter 5 Eliade and Kabbalah 157

Chapter 6 A "Shadow" among Rhinoceroses: Mihail Sebastian between Ionescu and Eliade 175

Chapter 7 Eliade, the Iron Guard, and Some Vampires 194

Chapter 8 Eliade as a Romanian Thinker 226

Final Remarks 241

Key to Abbreviated References in the Notes 263

Name Index 273

Subject Index 279

Editorial Reviews

«Overall, Idel’s lucid book is one of the finest works on Eliade that I have read.»
(Robert A. Segal, Slavic Review)

«Overall, Idel’s lucid book is one of the finest works on Eliade that I have read.»
(Robert A. Segal, Slavic Review)

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